COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 11.06.26

Three seats were up for grabs this week, a gentle warm-up for next week's mammoth round of by-elections (18 council and three Westminster).  The lads mostly favoured Reform for success this week, but Reform drew a rare blank.

Christleton & Huntington, Cheshire West and Chester Council

Con: 1,214 (32.9%) +6.8%

Grn: 1,122 (30.4%) +7.8%

Ref: 635 (17.2%) New

Lab: 389 (10.5%) -9.8%

LDm: 331 (9.0%) -7.5%

Con HOLD

Triggered by the death of the incumbent, the Tories selected a former MP to defend the seat in his honour.  Stephen Mosley lost his City of Chester seat at Westminster after just one term in 2015 (Labour have held the seat since).  Mosley successfully held this time, albeit in the face of a strong challenge from the Greens.  There was no independent candidate this time, which appeared to benefit both parties, who not only increased their vote share, but their number of votes also.  The ward is only 30 miles from the Makerfield constituency, so Reform's campaign may have been diluted by their focus on the big Westminster by-election.

Karl - Ref GAIN ✘

Rich - Grn GAIN ✘

Apsley & Corner Hall, Dacorum Borough Council

LDm: 742 (32.9%) -15.6%

Ref: 552 (24.5%) New

Con: 404 (17.9%) -14.9%

Ind: 213 (9.5%) New

Grn: 181 (8.0%) New

Lab: 161 (7.1%) -11.5%

LDm HOLD

This was a notional hold for the Lib Dems, with the incumbent having served as an independent for the last two years.  She resigned from the Lib Dems alongside several colleagues, following a row with the then Lib Dem council leader.  The Lib Dems lost their majority on the council as a result.  The party got the seat back on Thursday night, but with a much reduced majority.  Reform surged straight into second place, with the Tory and Labour vote share suffering also.

Karl - LDm HOLD ✔

Rich - Ref GAIN ✘

Cippenham Green, Slough Borough Council

Grn: 409 (24.5%) New

Con: 404 (24.2%) -19.9%

Lab: 355 (21.3%) -6.9%

Ref: 326 (19.5%) New

LDm: 176 (10.5%) +1.0%

Grn GAIN from Con

The Greens came from nowhere to stun the Conservatives, albeit by the slimmest of margins with just five votes in it.  This was a close run contest all round, with just 83 votes separating the Green victors from fourth place Reform.  The Tories had won this seat fairly easily in 2023 and were looking for a hold after the incumbent unexpectedly resigned.  The Greens clearly benefited from an electorate containing a significant Asian population, but curiously it was only the two right-leaning parties that selected Asian candidates.  The Reform candidate had the unfortunate surname Mahboob (which stems from a term of endearment in Arabic).

Karl - Con HOLD ✘

Rich - Ref GAIN ✘

Of the nine by-elections held since May 7th, these are the overall scores on the doors (look away Richey).  This could all change next week, with lots to play for (especially if your name's Andy and you love yourself and want the top job).

LONG HOT SUMMER?

Northern Ireland erupted on Tuesday night

A fiery night in Belfast and pockets of disorder across Northern Ireland was the most predictable outcome following Monday night's horrific knife attack.  Both communities north of the border have fought tooth and nail for centuries to maintain their place in this corner of the United Kingdom - or the island of Ireland, depending on who you ask.  However, both communities now face a shared threat to their existence and anyone who thinks they will simply cave in and go meekly to their doom - the way of Cockneys, Brummies and countless others - can think again.

Two years ago, for the first time in history, a protest was held in Belfast that saw Catholics and Protestants flying Irish tricolours and Union flags - not on opposite sides of the peace line, but together as one, side by side.  It was unprecedented, but it was necessary.  The protesters had simply had enough of mass migration, which has also spread rapidly to the Irish Republic in recent years.  On Tuesday evening the two communities came together again, in response to Monday's brutal attempted murder that took place in a Republican community.  Loyalists crossed the peace line to offer their support and they were welcomed, not shunned.  These acts of unity should send shivers down the spines of the politicians who govern through division, of course that is assuming that they have spines.

Initially, roads were blockaded - not just in Belfast, but across Northern Ireland.  Then fires were lit.  The condemnation from the politicians was swift, not so much for the barbaric attack on a native, but for the violence that followed.  Ministers and assembly members from across the divide were posting vilifying statements as cars and homes were going up in smoke (and yes, there's a huge irony every time someone from Sinn Fein condemns violence).  Starmer has issued his usual threat of the 'full force of the law', meaning that anyone arrested and charged will be fast tracked to a lengthy prison sentence.  Just as in Southport, some of those involved in the Southampton disorder only last week have already been sentenced to two or three years in the slammer.

But here's the thing.  Ultimately it is not so much those burning (or hurling) wheelie bins that are to blame for the violence - it is the politicians who created this multi-cultural tinderbox in the first place.  The knife attack in north Belfast by a Sudanese migrant was only a trigger.  The Southport massacre was another, as was the release of the bodycam footage in Henry Nowak's murder.  These horrific events, which will sadly continue and only get more frequent, present tipping points that release long pent-up frustrations and seething anger as native Brits watch their towns and cities undergo swift and devastating demographic change.  This change is accompanied by rampant criminality that is often overlooked by authorities, while judicial punishment is weak and the culprits are rarely ever deported - thanks to activist lawyers and activist judges working hand in hand.  Key members of the Rochdale rape gang faced deportation orders as long ago as 2012 and yet they remain here in the UK today, living in the same communities - alongside the victims of their hideous crimes.

So many disgusting crimes have been perpetrated by migrants (and their descendents) in recent years - too many to list here - but the biggest criminals of all remain the politicians.  They forced this multi-cultural mess on our nation without any consultation or consent from the masses, and they continue to exacerbate and speed up the process of our demise.  They look on from gated middle class communities as our girls are raped and our people butchered in the street, rubbing our noses in the dirt by declaring that 'diversity is strength'.

No, diversity is national suicide, and more and more Brits are waking up to that fact.  The limp-wristed one-sided narrative of politicians who knelt to honour a foreign serial criminal as US cities burned, can no longer have it both ways.  The same politicians who cried for 'righteous anger' when Floyd was killed, just three years earlier told the masses to 'not look back in anger' after 22 mostly young people were torn apart in a suicide bombing in Manchester.  They told natives not only to quietly submit to the horror, but to celebrate the diversity that created it in the first place.  No more.  The days of wishy washy candle burning are behind us now.  The horrors have become far too frequent and, frankly, too horrific to bear.

Condemn nativist violence if you like, but first and foremost our condemnation must be for the politicians who brought us here.  Our nation is dying and our people are being raped, butchered and replaced.  Enough is enough.

TOON TUESDAY #106

It's mostly a Telegraph affair this week, with most of the left-leaning rags featuring depictions of what's been unfairly dubbed the 'Farage riots' in Southampton, as well as Trump's ongoing Iranian deadlock.  Labour-related toons focused mostly on the ego in the north...

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Sunday Telegraph

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Stanley McMurtry for The Mail on Sunday

Christian Adams for The Sunday Telegraph

Chris Riddell for The Observer

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

SKS Cartoon on X

MEME MONDAY #86

Making a rod for their own back is an ongoing theme at the moment, as we join so many others in exposing the rampant hypocrisy and double standards of Labour's 2020 jumping on the BLM bandwagon.  The death of Henry Nowak in similar circumstances has laid it all to bare.  Why were Labour politicians so keen to bow down in honour of a foreign career criminal who died thousands of miles away, but will not give Westminster-born Henry Nowak the time of day?

Karl was still away at the beginning of last week, so the first three efforts on this list are Richey's work.

Mon 1 Jun - 8 shares.  Starmer's beloved Arse-nal lost the European Cup final
with a woeful penalty and some hilarious commentary: "No-one's played better
than him tonight... oh it's way over!"

Tue 2 Jun - 73 shares.  The bodycam footage ensured this horrific story remained
in the spotlight - where it absolutely should be

Wed 3 Jun - 6 shares.  No tip-offs involved!

Wed 3 Jun - 117 shares.  Starmer was responding to a question posed by Nigel
Farage during PMQs.  Given his legal background and lofty status, he knows
that what he said there is not true in the slightest

Fri 5 Jun - 1,313 shares

Fri 5 Jun - 69 shares.  As cities burned, with dozens of Americans killed in
the violence, Keir Starmer took the knee for George Floyd in 2020.  Six years
later the slogan is the same, but Starmer's message is that complaining about
Henry Nowak's death is 'divisive'

Fri 5 Jun - 346 shares

Sat 6 Jun - 75 shares.  Legacy media made a huge BLM rod for
its own back in 2020

Sat 6 Jun - 28 shares

Sun 7 Jun - 299 shares.  Starmer also made a rod for his own back in
2020, now coming back to haunt him

Sun 7 Jun - 148 shares

Sun 7 Jun - 3,352 shares.  There were various photos of socially
distanced Labour MPs 'taking the knee' outside the Commons.  Olivia
Blake, Tracy Brabin, Chris Bryant, Dawn Butler, Yvette Cooper, Kim
Johnson, Jonathan Reynolds, Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Zarah Sultana
were among those pictured kneeling.  Again, these morons made a
rod for their own back!

Half a dozen Facebook Stories were published last week, including the news that binlabour.com surpassed four million hits.  The site cannot achieve this success without the consistent sharing of our material, so thank you to everyone who has ever shared our stuff online.

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BOATWATCH #62

A dramatic lull has followed what was a busy week at the end of May.  The last day of May was the latest Channel pick-up, with zero crossings reported in June thus far.  Is it the unsettled weather?  Has Calais finally run low on colonists?  Are the French actively and successfully preventing crossings?

One thing is for certain, normal business will resume shortly.

Total = 13 (down 859 from previous week)

COUNCIL BY-ELECTION 04.06.26

It's the second week of solitary by-elections, but don't worry - June is going to be very busy, with more than 40 seats up for grabs later this month, plus three Westminster by-elections.

Technically, there were two by-elections this week, but the other one was a non-partisan affair for the distinctive City of London Corporation.  This uppity local authority doesn't even call itself a council and refers to its elected members as 'aldermen' instead of councillors.  The most interesting thing about this by-election was that among the field of eight independents, there was a chap called Ronnie Barker!  We'll skip over this contest, as it is of little interest to anybody beyond the snooty realms of central London.

The main action took place in Cumbria...

 

Hawcoat & Newbarns, Westmorland and Furness Council

Ref: 1,139 (48.4%) New

Lab: 576 (24.5%) -9.8%

Con: 447 (19.0%) -21.5%

Grn: 121 (5.1%) New

LDm: 69 (2.9%) -2.7%

Ref GAIN from Con

A stunning gain for Reform, taking the seat at the first time of asking.  The party appeared to take full advantage of the absence of an independent this time around, also taking a big swing from the Tories and a smaller swing from Labour.  They finished with almost twice the amount of votes amassed by second placed Labour, as the Tories slumped to third.  The vacancy had arisen through the relocation of the incumbent overseas for work.

Karl - Ref GAIN ✔

Rich - Lab GAIN ✘

Karl now leads Richey 3-1 after week three

TOON TUESDAY #105

A mixed bag this week, with Tony Blair's intervention the main theme.  His critique of Starmer's government, combined with a swipe at Andy Burnham, led to public squabbling involving the former PM, the current PM, Burnham - even Wes Streeting got involved.  We end this week's selection with a couple of Sturgeon-related efforts.  She knew nothing, right!

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Morten Morland for The Times

Morten Morland for The Times

Christian Adams for The Daily Telegraph

Pete Songi on X

Nick Newman for The Sunday Times

Ella Baron for The Guardian

Ben Jennings for The Guardian

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

Matt Pritchett for The Daily Telegraph

Patrick Blower for The Daily Telegraph

MEME MONDAY #85

Karl is currently away and the memes have begun to dry up, hence dwindling returns.  Richey will try his hand over the next day or two, but in the meantime here are the handful that were published last week...

Mon 25 May - 76 shares

Mon 25 May - 8 shares

Mon 25 May - 62 shares.  Judging by the comments, this show is still
fondly remembered more than 40 years on, albeit sadly now a relic of a
more homogeneous past

Wed 27 May - 316 shares

Wed 27 May - 23 shares

Thu 28 May - 394 shares.  Scotland is a land in which legends continue to
be born and this lad follows in the footsteps of the wee lassie who famously
brandished an axe and a knife to ward off migrant deviants only last year

Thu 29 May - 58 shares.  The usual suspects were bussed into Wigan from
the south of England to protest against the election of  more than two dozen
Reform councillors in the recent local elections.  These anti-democratic
fascists are also flocking to the nearby Makerfield constituency to try and
stop Reform from unseating Labour there and - by design or by proxy -
support Burnham's attempt to wrest control of the party from Starmer

Sat 30 May - 5 shares

Just two Facebook Stories were published last week on account of Karl's holiday...

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